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Professor ? Unfiltered Internet Has No Place in a Democracy

By DrewWilson

Says people like the Electronic Frontier Australia are a bunch of extremists. It may be difficult for some to read what this professor has published in Australian IT without noting a certain amount of irony, but a he has essentially said that the internet doesn't belong to people who have ?Libertarian? beliefs. It does seem to highlight how heated the web filtering debate in Australia has become. He starts out his article by saying that the internet filtering technology in Australia as proposed by the Australian government was to stop children from looking up porn on the internet. This may be news to a number of people who are watching the filtering debate unfold in Australia given that the first things we've heard out of the country's government revolved around child pornography, not children watching pornography; that is, of course, if you take what the government says as fact of course.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).